2019-05-25

Princess and the Fangirl : review

Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston

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SUMMARY
The Prince and the Pauper gets a modern makeover in this adorable, witty, and  heartwarming young adult novel set in the Geekerella universe by national bestselling author Ashley Poston.


Goodreads' link to the book!
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Stars: ✦✦✦
So as usual, I'll tell 4.0 things I liked about the book and 1.0 things I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The fairytale and retelling aspect is well done. I love retellings and the Prince and the Pauper is one I've loved.

+1 | Entertainment value. It went by quickly and it kept me interested



+1 | The writing and how the plot was done were both things I enjoyed

+/-1 | The characters and romance both had parts I liked and parts I didn't, and I don't know how to really explain my feelings on those.

Read on lovelies,
S

2019-05-18

Update: Did I Read Them?


I decided to do an update looking back at my old posts about books I hadn't read yet - and see if I have years later!
So without further ado, onto the list:

I'll cross over the ones I have read

Books I Haven't Read Yet (2014 link)

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Narnia by C.S. Lewis
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
4. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
5. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
6. Legend by Marie Lu

7. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
8. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
9. Half Bad by Sally Green
10. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Series I Haven't Finished (2014 link)

Are out but I don’t have them:
1. Defiance
2. Fables, graphic novel (I'm at number 9)
3. Manners and Mutiny4. Sealed with a Lie
Are out and I have them, but I haven't read them...:
1. Days of Blood and Starlight
2. False Memory 2-3
3. Poison Study 2-3
4. Goose Girl 3-4

5. Heir of Fire
6. Oz 2-37. Miss Mayhem

1st ones I own but have yet to read...:
1. Uglies
2. Geek Girl
3. Ember in the Ashes
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go
5. Sisters Red
6. Snow Like Ashes7. A Court of Thorns and Roses
8. Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making


With this latter list, the ones in red are the ones I want to get to. And from the last list of series I hadn't even started, I ended up reading all of the first ones, finishing only one series and waiting for the completion of one series.

Read on lovelies,
S

2019-05-11

The Vinyl Frontier : Review

The Vinyl Frontier by Jonathan Scott

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*ARC kindly provided by Bloomsbury through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!*


Publication May 21st 2019


SUMMARY
The fascinating story behind the mission, music, and message of NASA's Voyager Golden Record-humanity's message to the stars.


Goodreads' link to the book!

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Stars: ✦✦✦.5
So as usual, I'll tell 3.5 things I liked about the book and 1.5 things I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The idea is different and fascinating to me, but definitely not something for everyone.

+1 | A blend of facts with also the authors voice and stories mixed in.

+1 | The order was well thought out, it made sense as a whole.

+/-0.5 | Content. It covered so man genres of content. Not all interested me and sometimes slowed it down, but there's something for anyone vaguely interested.

-1 | Not everything included was needed.


Read on lovelies,
S

2019-05-04

How Many Have I Read?


There are plenty of lists and quizzes online to see if you've read a majority of books on a list, and I decided to take a longer one with you guys.

This list is from here: link, you're free to join me!
I'll check off the ones I have read and tally them up in the end to see how many I have read


George Orwell

Mark Twain

Paulo Coelho

Lewis Carroll

Robert Penn Warren

Cormac McCarthy

Henry James

Agatha Christie

L.M. Montgomery

Toni Morrison

Aldous Huxley

Evelyn Waugh

Helen Fielding

Jack London

Geoffrey Chaucer

Joseph Heller

J.D. Salinger

Roald Dahl

E.B. White

David Mitchel

Alice Walker

John Kennedy Toole

Alexandre Dumas

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Arthur Koestler

Miguel De Cervantes

Bram Stoker

Frank Herbert

Tom Wolfe

Ray Bradbury

Rohinton Mistry

James Baldwin

Doris Lessing

Margaret Mitchell

Ford Madox Ford

John Steinbeck

Thomas Pynchon

Charles Dickens

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jonathan Swift

William Shakespeare

Margaret Atwood

J.K. Rowling

Carson McCullers

Joseph Conrad

Douglas Adams

E.M. Forster

Marcel Proust

Ralph Ellison

Charlotte Brontë

Khaled Hosseini

Victor Hugo

Yann Martel

C.S. Lewis

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Louisa M Alcott

Vladimir Nabokov

William Golding

J.R.R. Tolkien

Gustave Flaubert

Sinclair Lewis

Dashiell Hammett

Arthur Golden

George Eliot

Salman Rushdie

Herman Melville

William S. Burroughs

Richard Wright

Philip Pullman

Ernest Hemingway

Jack Kerouac

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Irving

Jane Austen

Kazuo Ishiguro

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Donna Tartt

John Knowles

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Theodore Dreiser

Kurt Vonnegut

D.H. Lawrence

William Faulkner

Robert Heinlein

Arthur Ransom

Audrey Niffenegger

Harper Lee

Virginia Woolf

Nevil Shute

Henry Miller

James Joyce

Malcolm Lowry

Leo Tolstoy

Richard Adams

Samuel Butler

Kenneth Grahame

A.A. Milne

Emily Bronte
Robert M. Pirsig



Read on lovelies,
S